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Pappus

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Pappus (păp`əs), fl. c.300, Greek mathematician of Alexandria. He recorded and enlarged on the results of his predecessors, including Euclid and Apollonius of Perga, in his Mathematical Collection (8 books; date conjectural). The six and a half extant books, edited and translated into Latin by Commandinus (1588), stimulated a revival of geometry in the 17th cent.; Descartes expounded several of his problems. The collection was reedited by Frederick Hultsch (1876–78). Pappus' other works include a commentary on Ptolemy's Almagest.

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See T. L. Heath, A Manual of Greek Mathematics (1931).



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Here, amid manuscripts of Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Pappus, Ptolemy, and others, we learn - and see - the roots of modern physical science.
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Peter Dear's survey of ideas on method shows that Galileo's advocacy of geometrical analysis derived from Pappus of Alexandria's Collectiones mathematicae, published in Latin in 1589 (151); Alan Gabbey's account of 'new doctrines of motion' brings out well Galileo's individual development of Peripatetic theories (651-52), while Michael Mahoney acutely shows both the advantages and limitations of Galileo's inheritance from Archimedean mechanics and scholastic kinematics (706-14).
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy by VICKERS, BRIAN / Renaissance Quarterly
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